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Why do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When you get your ballot and there's 10 choices but all year the media pretends there's only two, that should tell you something's seriously broken

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your point being that it's futile to cast a vote for something that won't come to fruition? Thanks for supporting the original point that voting for a third party candidate is a waste of your vote, and just helps Trump.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Electoralism is a joke in oligarchies, yes.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Low effort shitposts like this that ignore the point of the person you are responding to, that is what makes the internet a bad place.